Reliability of No Child Left Behind Accountability Designs

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 12-20

  Hill, Richard K ^a   DePascale, Charles A ^b  

^a The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assesment Inc   (United States)

^b National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability design; No Child Left Behind (NCLB); Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993722249     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2003.tb00133.x     Document Type: Article

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